Wind Concerns Ontario is a province-wide advocacy organization whose mission is to provide information on the potential impact of industrial-scale wind power generation on the economy, human health, and the natural environment.

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Sure this panel will back up the myths of 100% renewables and the libs will press forward with their planet saving green agenda!!!

Wondering if this panel is intelligent and independent enough to recognize the wrong geological map was used in Chatham Kent water well issue…. if not then… at the very least this panel will be compensated well!!!

Thank-you Mr. Alpin.
We just can’t seem to get the money flow stopped!
There is a mountain of bona-fide data on these IWT’S covering over ten years.
Mayors, Accountants, Tradesman, CEO’s, Electrical Engineers, Power Workers and many others have provided factual data to the McGuinty and now Wynne governments and still they promote their for profit propaganda.
As we have all said many times—
IWT’S are for the generation of wealth power not for the generation of electrical power.
Another year has passed and the money still flows to those who will stoop low enough to take it and think, “tahell with the planet give me the cash”.
Providing real-time, real data, from real windmills and solar farms is not working to help stop this nonsense.
From our experiences with off grid set-ups, it figures to between 400 and 500 dollars per month for diesel or propane generation to a single residence with some inconvenience and much less initial cost than solar or turbine.
Some homeowners, who have always been on hydro and nuclear, now are on fossil because of the spiraling out of control costs.
Rents are controlled in Ontario but not the cost of hydro to the owner. So they take the loss.
The type of renewables being implemented now are a losing situation regardless of how anyone spins it.
And I can prove that!
Stan the power man

Hey, green energy people, during the last hour of today, Jan. 15, 2018, 10pm to 11pm, all the windmills in Ontario provided 780mw.
It is -20 at 11:33pm with a severe north wind.
The grid is demanding 22,000mw.
The gas plants to supply back up for the non producing windmills are topping out at 4980mw.
Imagine the CO2 and other green house gases being generated during this cold weather just for the windmills.
There is no good way to spin this, it is simply a waste and burden on the grid.
If I could I would shut down the windmills and their supporting gas plants at least until the severe cold has passed.
Stan the power man

We were exporting 4008 MW to NY, Michigan and Quebec during that hour and were being paid about $65/70/MWh so maybe IESO was trying to earn a little extra. Gas generation only costs us slightly more than the fuel costs of generation (they are guaranteed prices per MW of capacity under their contracts) so it might have been an honest effort on IESO’s part to lessen the burden on Ontario’s ratepayers. We should allow them 1 hour out of the 8760 hours in a year to actually keep the GA in check. Too bad they couldn’t do the same for the other hours too.